19th Century Rewards of Merit Group 3 (Blank and Ready to Use!) antique cut paper work Cards measure approx 3 1/2"

Cards measure approx 3 1/2" x 2 3/8"

This piece was carved of porous whale bone--with grey shell used for the pupils and white walrus ivory for the irises--by Alaskan Inupiat master carver Mark 'Delutak' Tepton

with framed out window and slide opening back

but earnest ones like this really win me

19th Century Rewards of Merit Group 3 (Blank and Ready to Use!) antique cut paper work Cards measure approx 3 1/2"The existence of rewards of merit makes me glad, given from teachers to students to affirm their good efforts, as does the fact that people saved them. Last weekend I found a large collection of them in a box in Midcoast Maine quite a nice variety of them, which I've divided into three groups, all listed today. The ones in this group were never filled in with the names of students, so I thought nice to group together, as one could fill them in and